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Munira Khayyat teaches anthropology at the American University in Cairo. Her research revolves around life in war. Her book manuscript is entitled A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon and explores the ways in which humans and other beings make life-worlds together, survive and even thrive in militarized and war-seasoned environments. Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation as well as the Arab Council for the Social Sciences. In 2018-19 she was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Sciences in Princeton.
RCC Research Project: A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
Selected Publications:
- A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon. Book manuscript, in progress.
- “On Living through Plagues and Wars in Lebanon.” Anthropology News website, 2020.
- “The Only Way Out is Through: Anthropology as Critical Praxis in Times of Crisis – Notes from the Streets/Classrooms of Cairo and Beirut.” In Crisis Under Critique, edited by Didier Fassin and Axel Honneth, Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
- “Waste as Weapon, Life as Resistance.” Book Symposium on Stamatopoulo-Robbins, Sophia Waste Siege in HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory: 2021.
- “Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) Vol. 14, No. 3: 2018.
- “Resistant Ecologies.” In American Ethnologist. Under review.